The questions
1 What Horatian maxim was rejected by Wilfred Owen?
2 Which county was divided into three ridings?
3 Which literary dame understudied for Vanessa Redgrave at the RSC?
4 In Toulouse, street signs are in French and what other language?
5 Which former head of state died in the Netherlands in 1941?
6 What dog is said to feed the hand that bites it?
7 What are secreted by the endocrine glands?
8 Which rock group “unmasked” on MTV in 1983?
What links:
9 Tree; rose; bird; globe; poppy; thistle; pound?
10 1877 (2); 1889 (3); 1928 (4); 1952 (7); 2000 (10); 2018 (12)?
11 St Edward’s; Imperial State; Queen Mary’s; Queen Mother’s?
12 Butterfly; flat; gable; hip; mansard; skillion?
13 Pablo Fanque; Edgar Allan Poe; Mao; Heath and Wilson; Walter Raleigh?
14 Set It Off; Bound; The Bling Ring; Ocean’s 8; Widows?
15 Romulus Augustus; Constantine XI Palaeologos; Francis II?
The answers
1 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
2 Yorkshire.
3 Margaret Drabble.
4 Occitan.
5 Kaiser Wilhelm II.
6 Hot dog!
7 Hormones.
8 Kiss.
9 UK party symbols: Conservative; Labour; Lib Dem; Green; Plaid Cymru; SNP; Ukip.
10 Number of Test-playing cricket sides.
11 Crowns in the crown jewels.
12 Types of roof.
13 Mentioned in Beatles songs: Mr Kite; I Am The Walrus; Revolution; Taxman; I’m So Tired.
14 Female-led crime films.
15 Last “Roman” Emperors: last Western Roman Emperor; last Byzantine Emperor; last Holy Roman Emperor.
